“THE OBAMA BIGEST TRIUMP” Shocking: Obama Just Let China Pass The US In A Major Area We’ve Dominated Since The 1800s. “This is a geopolitical earthquake…” By Norvell Rose —

If you recently felt the earth move beneath your feet — or possibly a ripple in the Force — this could be why…

For the first time since Ulysses Grant was president — in other words, not since the 1870’s — the United States is no longer the No. 1 economy in the world.

China just climbed into the top slot as the leading economic power on the planet, as reported on MarketWatch.com.

The International Monetary Fund recently released the latest numbers for the world economy.

And when you measure national economic output in “real” terms of goods and services, China will this year produce $17.6 trillion — compared with $17.4 trillion for the U.S.A.

As recently as 2000, notes the Market Watch post, the U.S. produced nearly three times as much as the Chinese.

From TradingEconomics.com, we learn that industrial production in China has been enjoying substantial growth, increasing nearly 8% in October, 2014, over the same month a year earlier.

Among the sub-sectors, manufacturing output increased 8.5 percent, mining 4.7 percent and electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply 2.9 percent.

The Market Watch columnist who alerts us to America’s loss of the top spot on the world economic stage believes that this shift in the balance of dollars-and-cents power will have long-term, far-reaching consequences.

And these will not be particularly positive consequences for those who prefer a world dominated by the United States:

This is a geopolitical earthquake with a high reading on the Richter scale. Throughout history, political and military power have always depended on economic power.

Britain was the workshop of the world before she ruled the waves. And it was Britain’s relative economic decline that preceded the collapse of her power.

Peter Reagan of Birch Gold Group, a national dealer of physical precious metals, notes that China has likely imported 8,000-9,000 tons of gold since 1995. If put under the custody of the People’s Bank of China, those sizable imports would boost the nation’s official gold reserves to a level on par with that of the U.S. They could also put upward pressure on the price of gold on world markets.

It’s significant as well that President Obama — who has long signaled his lack of interest in seeing the U.S. retain its No. 1 standing in the world — traveled to Beijing last month to meet the Chinese president and attend the APEC summit.

There the two leaders announced what Time.com characterizes as “a blockbuster deal” on significant measures to address climate change.

It was a deal that many opponents have criticized as putting unfair burdens on the U.S. economy, relative to the flexibility given the Chinese in being able to maintain carbon-creating industrial output.

“Capitalism sees individuals as creators of value, responsible for themselves with a minimal role for the state. But more and more Americans are becoming dependent on the welfare state. More and more, Americans are demanding increased handouts and government control of business.

“So as China slowly eases away from Communism, many of the government programs in the U.S. are actually moving towards it. If these trajectories continue, that prediction by the World Bank is a slam dunk: China will ascend and we will descend.”

It would seem that, if the fears of Obama’s critics are borne out, these new standings in the world economy — with the U.S. no longer in first position — could last for some time to come.

It’s Time for Congressmen and the President to Wear Cameras and Microphones

If you’ve seen the movieSaving Mr. Banks(2013), starring Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, you will understand why every congressman should be recorded when discussing any piece of legislation. It should be a law, whether a discussion takes place over breakfast, lunch, or dinner. The recorder should always be on and immediately uploaded to the internet.

Every congressman should have a YouTube channel that can be accessed by anybody from anywhere in the world 24/7. A caller toRush Limbaugh’s show yesterday(12/5/2014) called for the same thing, but my wife will tell you that I told her about it when the proposal came out to equip policemen with cameras.

I also added that I thought criminals should also wear cameras. Of course I was joking, but I made the suggestion that gun control legislation removes guns only from people who most often never commit crimes. Criminals have no problem breaking the law. That’s why they’re criminals. Gun control does not affect them; it only makes their criminal ways easier.

“In London in 1961, financially struggling author Pamela “P. L.” Travers (Emma Thompson) reluctantly agrees to travel to Los Angeles to meet with Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) at the urging of her agent. . . . Disney has been courting Travers for 20 years, seeking to acquire the film rights to her Mary Poppins stories, on account of his daughters’ request to produce a film based on the character. Travers, however, has been hesitant to allow Disney to adapt her creation to the screen because he is known primarily as a producer of animated feature films, which Travers openly disdains.”

It’s a great film on many levels. It’s a lesson in persistence and persuasion.

But one of the most fascinating and instructive parts of the story is what Pamela Travers demanded as the production process took place at the Disney Studios.

“Travers insisted on taping her daily artistic negotiations with Disney’s creative staff: Whitford’s character and the two songwriters. The Disney studio still has those tapes. The screenwriter no doubt took liberties with them, but their use in the closing credits was itself highly creative and very simple. The woman was adamant about what she wanted. But what she wanted most was enough money to make sure she could keep her London home. That, she received. Without that, the charming Walt Disney would never have persuaded the curmudgeonly Miss Travers.”

Travers did not trust the irrepressible Walt Disney and his animation ways. She knew about his persuasive personality, and she was not going to succumb to it. She made irrational demands (e.g. no color red), and wanted the give-and-take of production planning recorded —39 hours of recordings— to have a record of points of agreement and disagreement.

She wanted to be able to say “let’s go to the tape to hear what you agreed to do.”

The tapes still exist. At the end of the film, you can hear Pamela Travers’ voice coming from one of the reels.

To demonstrate that even recordings can’t be trusted, “Saving Mr. Banks depicts several events that differ from recorded accounts. The dramatic premise of the script — that Walt Disney had to convince P.L. Travers to hand over the film rights, including the scene when he finally persuades her — is fictionalized, as Disney had already secured the film rights (subject to Travers’ approval of the script) when Travers arrived to consult with the Disney staff.”

I joked the other day via Facebook that White Christmas would soon be considered a racist song. Well … here it is. Check it out you creepy ass crackers!

TPNN – These Christmas bashing progressives have taken their hate-filled paranoia to a new level with their attacks against country singer Darius Rucker, who happens to be black. What did Rucker do that drew the hate of the liberals? He sang White Christmas at Rockefeller Center in New York City.

Liberals immediately took to Twitter to display their idiocy and attack Rucker.

Is Obama Pulling an Amnesty Bait and Switch?

A funny thing happened on the way to Obama signing his executive order giving amnesty to 5 million plus illegal aliens. He didn’t sign it.

The National Archives have confirmed that while Obama signed two executive orders in Las Vegas the day after his national amnesty announcement, neither of them was an executive order fulfilling his amnesty program.

Since Obama’s amnesty announcement, Republicans have been on a warpath, looking for ways to derail the plan and stop a president who is clearly acting beyond the bounds of the law by effectively inventing and implementing new laws on his own whim.

Obama remains defiant, claiming powers for himself that are not outlined in the Constitution. When he addressed the nation to announce his plan for amnesty, Obama said, “The actions I’m taking are not only lawful, they’re the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every Democratic president for the past half-century. And to those members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better, or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed, I have one answer: Pass a bill.”

And the House did just that on Thursday, passing the Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act on a 219-197 vote.

But until the new Senate is sworn in, it’s just a symbolic vote because there’s no way Sen. Harry Reid will let it be voted on, and even if he did, Obama would never sign it.

No bill is signed by Obama unless it’s exactly the bill he wants. The entire process of Congress at this point in time is simply an illusion. It’s not even a formality, because it truly does not matter under King Obama what the people’s representatives in Congress want.

Which brings up the question of why Obama didn’t sign an executive order when he clearly wanted to. Even former Administration spokesman Jay Carney has admitted that Obama is “literally” doing the opposite of what he said he couldn’t do.

“The problem is that I’m the President of the United States. I’m not the Emperor of the United States,” Obama said back in February of 2013. Evidently, His Majesty has changed his mind.

But by ordering Johnson and the DHS to do his dirty work through a policy memorandum, Obama is clearly hedging his bets in the high likelihood of a legal assault on his amnesty order and his presidency.